61. If only "gun" were a longer, harder-to-spell and -pronounce word...

71. Yes!

team this story w/ the one about the ammo stored in the OVEN; girlfriend fires up the oven, girlfriend gets shot .....and the gun rolling around the floor of some guy's truck along w/ his rolling around dog, dog steps on trigger, guy gets shot - Yea, an I.Q. test is a requirement to own a gun.

4. "Why are you arresting me?"

"I'm only shooting my gun in a parking lot full of cars and people at a guy who stole some cheap dollar bin crap from Walmart! "

"Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorence on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started shooting my gun that that sort of thing is frowned upon...."

12. ROFL n/t

15. How about just tie the car to a nearby church?

"They might not be here exactly when you get back but it's a blue Chevy two-door. And it'd be going south on Hertado Street. No, I can't make out the license number, but...it'd be pulling a small church."

"Any blue Chevy pulling a small church, I figure that'd be the one, yeah."

10. The best was the interview with the shooters wife

the shoplifter ran into the wife knocking her down, then the good shooter went to work. But the interview of the wife was worthy of an Oscar. Beneath the heavy tears, she muttered that he was going to kill her. The good shooter added that the shoplifter tried backing over him, and that is why he shot. By the way, what criminal parks his getaway car so he has to back up.

40. Another vigilante gun owner that thinks he can be judge, jury, and executioner, all in a

event that had exactly *nothing* to do with him.

He was not directly threatened by harm in any way.
He was not in physical danger in any way.
His person or belongings were not involved, until he decided to interject himself into the matter by using deadly force.

He's going to have a swell time explaining to the insurance company why they should pay for all the damage he caused those vehicles, too.

46. Can you imagine buying a great hammer, being trained.....

by carpenters on the most efficient way to use it, go to your weekly session hitting nails, polish it daily and even carry it around with you.
Now, can you imagine never getting the opportunity to actually hammer two pieces of wood together.
Is this the frustration of the gun owner? You bet.

67. How aggravating a peaceful day must be...

47. How long till this goes meta?

I can see it now some "responsible gun owner" feels threatened in some way (that person looked at me funny!) and starts shooting. Second "responsible gun owner" sees the first firing his gun and opens fire on that person and so on and so on and so on....

51. Arrested. Assault with a Deadly Marker. n/t

54. I used to think Simpsons episodes were hyperbole & overkill for comedic effect

Remember that episode when Homer gets a gun?
I thought things like the sudden crazy mob scenes were exaggerated for comedy purposes.
I always understood the Simpsons to be social commentary so that was the frame of mind I thought in.

This past decade I have come to realize that The Simpsons weren't exaggerating AT ALL.
Simpsons hit the ACTUALITY of American behavior & disguised it as comedic social satire.
Maybe we're just living in a cartoon world now but isn't this the kind of foolishness you would expect from a gag scene in The Simpsons?
Something that Homer or some other thoughtless character would do?